Monday, December 10, 2007

Introduction

This photo of Balemong Resort is courtesy of TripAdvisor

Gambang Semarang is a traditional art in Semarang. This art consists of music, vocal, dance, and comedy. (UKM KJ UNDIP)

This program is for freshman creative writing—a workshop on the forms of creative writing as practiced by the students themselves. The forms of creative writing in this program are poetic writing, narrative writing, playwriting, and scriptwriting. In the first half semester the students will be introduced to poetic writing and narrative writing to write short model poems and short model stories; and in the second half semester, they will be introduced to playwriting and scriptwriting to write short model plays and short model scripts.

The creative writing methods used in this program are creative imitation, creative adaptation, and creative composition. Creative imitation is applied in the first level to write based on writing models. Creative adaptation is applied in the second level to write based on other writing sources. Creative composition is applied in the third level to write based on inspiration, imagination, and intuition.

It is easy to learn theory of writing but difficult to learn creativity. It is hard to learn creative writing without practicing. The only way to learn to write is to write. It means that learning by doing is an appropriate method in creative writing. The only way to be creative is to create. It means that creativity implies in creation. To be creative or not to be, let’s write, write, and write.

2 comments:

To be creative is really hard, as you said, Sir! I'm running several creative biz now varying from cinematography to content designing for e-learning. I am able to manage them all simply by mastering several important basis you taught me during 96-00, thanks for your trust to me.

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He was born in Cilacap on 18 April 1964. After finishing his junior and senior high schools, he continued his study in English Department, Faculty of Letters, Diponegoro University, Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia. After graduating in 1989 with a thesis entitled “Deformation: An Experiment towards An Existential Theory of Literature”, he enrolled to be an education staff in his almamater. In 1997 he followed an international program of American Studies in Delaware University, America. His creative writings are published in Minggu Ini weekly newspaper and Cempaka tabloid. His scientific writings are published in several journals such as Aras, Miracle, Lembaran Sastra, Kajian Sastra, and Renai. His textbooks for Open University are Introduction to English Literature (2006), and Translation 9 (2007). His books are Penerjemahan Sastra (1999), Penerjemahan Ilmiah (1999), Metodologi Penelitian Sastra (1999), and Tentang Avant-Garde (2000). He teaches Creative Writing, Cross Cultural Understanding, Translation, Theory of Literature, Literary Criticism, Cultural Criticism, Sociology of Literature, Psychology of Literature, and Method of Literary Research.